It’s hard enough standing in front of a crowd delivering a presentation. To ease the worry, here are five mistakes that are easily avoidable when creating a PowerPoint presentation.
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Start using Presenter View in PowerPoint to ditch cluttered catch-all slides and free up the space for punchy and powerful slides that supplement your delivery.
Office 2010 is about to hit the streets next month, so the Microsoft team has been busy upgrading some of its official (and free) PowerPoint add-ons. We’ve already seen pptPlex upgraded, and now Producer — an add-in that makes it easier to incorporate screencasts and video into PowerPoint decks — has seen a similar upgrade.
Windows only: Collaboration on projects is much easier than it used to be with services like Google Docs, but if you need some of the features in Office itself, free plugin CircleDoc makes real-time collaboration possible in PowerPoint 2007.
Windows: PowerPoint Viewer, saviour of those who need to open, but not create, Microsoft PowerPoint files, has been updated to open the PowerPoint 2010-formatted presentations you just know people are going to be sending soon.
pptPlex, a Microsoft Labs-created add-in for PowerPoint that makes presentations more interactive, hasn’t seen a lot of development since it appeared back in 2008. A new update gets the add-in working for users of the forthcoming Office 2010 release.
An oldie-but-goodie post from entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki directly addresses the kind of problems the military has with complex PowerPoint decks—boring read-throughs stuffed with too much on-screen text. His parameters for preventing audience paralysis is dubbed the 10/20/30 rule.
